LAO: National Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Hydropower Sector (2005)

Event: Country Safeguard Systems: Southeast Asia

LAO: National Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Hydropower Sector (2005)

29 August 2005

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By the end of the 1990s, the hydropower sector accounted for three percent of Lao GDP. and electricity

sales to Thailand currently represent 30 percent of exports. Yet only an estimated 15-20 percent of Lao

PDR's economically viable hydropower generating capacity has been realized to date. The National

Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy recognizes the importance of the hydropower sector in

economic growth and poverty reduction. The Government of Lao PDR acknowledges that hydropower

development must be sustainable, if its development potential to deliver lasting benefits to Lao PDR can

be fully realized

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